Practise complete expressions about eating, thirst and inviting someone to eat.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Take turns selecting one complete expression, reading it, and checking its meaning. Compare affirmative and negative eating examples in the source tables without changing their forms.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
Ñɔɔsɩ wʋm
EN I'm hungry
FR J’ai faim
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
I'm hungry
Transcription and translation notes
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
For the eating examples, the workbook shows lengthening in the subject portion of negative forms. Compare Ŋdɔkɩ with Ŋŋdɔkɩ. The first-person example changes more than just one letter, so study the entire printed pair instead of inventing a universal conversion rule.
Compare affirmative and negative forms
Person
Aspect / context
Kabɩyɛ
Meaning / note
Affirmative
Mɔndɔkɩ koliko
I eat koliko (fried yam).
Negative
Máádɔkɩ koliko
I do not eat koliko.
Affirmative
Ŋdɔkɩ koliko
You eat koliko.
Negative
Ŋŋdɔkɩ koliko
You do not eat koliko.
Transcription and translation notes
Forms were compared with the PDF. Legacy font characters are represented with the corresponding Latin Kabɩyɛ letters (ɩ, ɛ, ʋ, ɖ, ŋ), retaining printed tone marks.
